-y * 1857 / J > 1-7- "•'' MARCH. n Remarkable days- 1 1st Sunday in Lent. St. David. Riot at Belfast 1847 2 High winds 3 First U. S. Congress 1789. 4 becomes milder 5 Patent to Cabot & Sons to discover and occupy new Continents, 1495. 8 2d Sun. in Lent. Sir Alexander Bannerman ar¬ rived 1851. 10 Act passed to appoint a Sheriff to each County, 1837. 11 Blustering with 12 occasionally sleet 13 and snow 15 3d Sunday in Lent. 17 St. Patrick. 18 Princess Louisa b. 1848. 20 Spring commences. 22 4th Sunday in Lent. 24 Unpleasant weather. 25 Annunciation. Lady day. 28 England declares War against Russia, 1854. 29 5th Sun. in Lent. 30 Fredericion N. B ., incor¬ porated, 1848. Severe,but True.—"There are some members of a community," said the saga¬ cious and witty Thomas Bradbury , " that are like a crumb in the throat: if they go the right way, they afford but little nourishment;^but if they happen to go the wrong way, they give a great deal of trouble."* Manner. — Our-_ very ■Sm'anner is a thing of impor¬ tance. A kind no is often more agreeable than a rnnoh ties. Witty and Severe Re ¬ tort.— When the celebrated Dunning, afterwards Lord Ashburton , was " stating law" to a jury in court, Lord Mansfield interrupted him by saying, " It that be law, I'll go home and burn my books" " My lord," replied Dunning, '' you had better go home and read them." Slander.—It is a Spanish proverb, that the calumniator injures three persons ; the one defamed, the one who listens, and most of all himself.— Speak evil of no man, is the precept of our religion. A merchant, being hurried, called upon a waggish neigh¬ bor the other day, and asking if he»had a spare clerk to lend him, was referred to a very thin young man, with a pen behind his ear, as being the sparest he had. A Tailor, who in skating fell through the iee, declared that he would never again leave a hot goose for a cold duck. Sam Slick says—" I believe every critter in the world thinks he is the most enter- tainin' one in it, and that there is no gettin' on anyhow without him. .Conceit grows :is nat'ra'l ,as-tife hair on one's head, but is longer in comin' out. ^ Never dispute with a woman or bay4rrugs of a boy. ^Hfc.